Word: paternalisme
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But not even Whitesnake should be kept away from the public. How far down the slippery slope of paternalism will MTV travel? Since when does MTV claim to be the protector of public morality? After all, Allan Bloom has long maintained that MTV concists of "hymns to onanism and the...
Unfortunately, the staff's proposal does not live up to this goal. The proposed joint student-faculty committee would employ two criteria in assigning performance space: potential to draw crowds and "artistic merit." The first of these is valid--in fact, it is the only fair criterion. The second smacks...
HARVARD health officials said this week that the University is now testing campus water to check whether the concentration of potentially cancer-causing chemicals has returned to a permissable level. But this revelation--whether or not it actually is true--cannot begin to make up for damage done by a...
So why didn't they just communicate that "feeling," along with the facts of the contamination, to the Harvard community? Their paternalism violates the spirit of Massachusetts' health-hazard notification law, which requires that municipalities notify water customers of contamination. Rosenthal's argument that a report of the Cambridge letter...
Not all blacks appreciate the protest. Civil rights activist Benjamin Hooks sees it as a form of paternalism. "Buried in this line of thinking," he wrote recently, "is the rationale that blacks are not capable of making their own free choices." His comments reflect the reluctance of some black groups...